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user1036908
user1036908

Reputation: 861

use CMAKE to set enable incremental linking to NO in VS2012

I am using cmake 2.8.0 to build my VS2012 solution that has multiple projects. For each project, I wish to set the properties->Linker-> Enable Incremental Linking to NO for each project.

There are flags such as CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG that can probably be used. I am not sure though, tried some online help as well to no effect.

Please advise

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8311

Answers (4)

hamaney
hamaney

Reputation: 498

Checking WIN32 is not enough. The flag only means that the target system is Windows. So, in case we are building with GCC or any other compiler on Windows, the flag /INCREMENTAL would fail because it is MSVC specific.

for CMake >= 3.13 this should do it.

if(MSVC) 
    target_link_options(${TARGET_NAME} <INTERFACE|PUBLIC|PRIVATE>
        # $<$<CONFIG:Debug>:/INCREMENTAL> is active by default for debug
        $<$<CONFIG:Release>:/INCREMENTAL:NO>
    )
endif()

target_link_options docs

Upvotes: 1

Jakub Jeziorski
Jakub Jeziorski

Reputation: 193

Solution that works for me is:

if(WIN32)
    set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "/INCREMENTAL:NO")
endif()

Upvotes: 1

user1036908
user1036908

Reputation: 861

I managed to find the solution. Apparently a lot of other flags also need to be set to /INCREMENTAL:NO

FOREACH(FLAG_TYPE EXE MODULE SHARED)
    STRING (REPLACE "INCREMENTAL:YES" "INCREMENTAL:NO" FLAG_TMP 
    "${CMAKE_${FLAG_TYPE}_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG}")
        STRING (REPLACE "/EDITANDCONTINUE" "" FLAG_TMP 
    "${CMAKE_${FLAG_TYPE}_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG}")
        SET(CMAKE_${FLAG_TYPE}_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG "/INCREMENTAL:NO ${FLAG_TMP}" CACHE
        STRING "Overriding default debug ${FLAG_TYPE} linker flags." FORCE)
        MARK_AS_ADVANCED (CMAKE_${FLAG_TYPE}_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG)
ENDFOREACH ()

Upvotes: 2

Mark Garcia
Mark Garcia

Reputation: 17708

You should set the /INCREMENTAL:NO linker flag.

To override it in CMake, you should follow the techniques provided in How to add linker or compile flag in cmake file?:

set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} /INCREMENTAL:NO" )

Upvotes: 2

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